Collections in Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division

The Léon Gontran Damas Recorded Sound Collection consists primarily of noncommercial recordings of radio broadcasts made during his travels to Africa, France, and the United States etc.; as well as one commercial LP audio recording, "Poesie de la Negritude" by Leon G. Damas. The noncommercial material consists of interviews with Damas and others; poetry readings, and lectures by Damas and various other artists; drum music and traditional music from French Guinea and Sub-Saharan Africa. The collection includes the works of Guy Tirolien, Bernard Dadie, Jacques Rabemananjara, Aimé Césaire, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Bob Stokes, Eugene Miller, Jayne Cortez and others. less

The Schomburg Public Programs at the Countee Cullen Library collection consists of 208 sound recordings created from 1941 to 1979. These recordings largely document programs held at the home libraries of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature, History and Prints, the precursor to the Schomburg Center. The collection was first housed in New York Public Library's 135th St. Branch Library, which was renamed the Countee Cullen Library in 1951. less

José Angel Vigo taught Afro-American studies, anthropology, and Puerto Rican history and culture at Yale, Wes­leyan, and Rut­gers Uni­ver­si­ties. The José Vigo audio collection consists of seventeen audio recordings related to Vigo's career in the field of sociolinguistics. less

Malcolm X (1925 - 1965) was an African American nationalist leader and Muslim minister who sought to broaden the civil rights struggle in the United States into an international human rights issue. The Malcolm X audio and moving image collection consists of thirty-four audio recordings and twenty-one films created from circa the 1950s to 1983. less